Robin Green is an American writer and producer. She was an executive producer on the HBO series ''
The Sopranos
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''. She was a creator and executive producer for ''
Blue Bloods''.
Biography
A
Rhode Island
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native,
Robin Green earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in
American literature
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from
Pembroke College in Brown University
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, and a
Master of Fine Arts
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from the
Iowa Writers' Workshop
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at
the University of Iowa
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.
[ Green is Jewish.
In 1968, Green worked as ]Marvel Comics
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' secretary-receptionist and "Gal Friday" for editor-in-chief Stan Lee
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.
After moving on from Marvel she spent time as a magazine journalist in such publications as ''Rolling Stone
''Rolling Stone'' is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco, San Francisco, California, in 1967 by Jann Wenner, and the music critic Ralph J. Gleason. It was first kno ...
''.
Upon entering the television industry as a writer, Green wrote and produced for such series as ''The Sopranos
''The Sopranos'' is an American Crime film#Crime drama, crime drama television series created by David Chase. The story revolves around Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), a New Jersey-based American Mafia, Italian-American mobster, portraying h ...
'' ''Northern Exposure
''Northern Exposure'' is an American Northern comedy-drama television series about the eccentric residents of a fictional small town in Alaska that ran on CBS from July 12, 1990, to July 26, 1995, with a total of 110 episodes. It received 57 ...
'', ''A Year in the Life
''A Year in the Life'' is an American dramatic series that ran on NBC from September 16, 1987 to April 13, 1988, during the 1987–1988 television season, created by Joshua Brand and John Falsey.
The series began as a three-part miniseries whi ...
'' and '' Almost Grown'', and wrote the Showtime
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TV movie ''Critical Choices''.
In 2010 Green worked as an executive consultant and writer on the second season of police drama ''Southland Southland may refer to:
Places Canada
* Dunbar–Southlands, Vancouver, British Columbia
New Zealand
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''.
In August 2018 Little Brown and Company
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published Green's memoir, '' The Only Girl: My life and times on the masthead of Rolling Stone''.
Green is married to ''The Sopranos'' co-writer Mitchell Burgess
Mitchell Burgess is an American writer and producer. He was the writer and an executive producer on ''The Sopranos''. He was a creator and executive producer for '' Blue Bloods''. He frequently works with his wife Robin Green.
Career
''The Sopr ...
.
Works
*
Awards
Green won an Emmy Award
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for her work on the CBS
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series ''Northern Exposure''. She was awarded the 2001 and 2003 Emmys for Best Writing of a Drama Series for episodes of ''The Sopranos'', as well as in 2004 for Outstanding Drama Series. In addition she has won two Peabody Award
The George Foster Peabody Awards (or simply Peabody Awards or the Peabodys) program, named for the American businessman and philanthropist George Peabody, honor the most powerful, enlightening, and invigorating stories in television, radio, and ...
s and a Golden Globe for that show.
References
External links
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American television producers
American women television producers
American television writers
Pembroke College in Brown University alumni
Brown University alumni
Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni
Living people
American women television writers
Writers Guild of America Award winners
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Primetime Emmy Award winners
Showrunners
21st-century American women